"When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school."

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Source : Alexander Sutherland Neill (1969). “Summerhill: a radical appoach to education”

Alexander Sutherland Neill

#Children Quotes #School Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Hoist up sail while gale doth last, Tide and wind stay no man's pleasure.”

Source : Robert Southwell (1856). “The poetical works of the rev. Robert Southwell, now first completely ed. by W. B. Turnbull”, p.60
“Everyone dies without understanding anything. Thats the way the world works, after all.”
“I never saw a mob rush across town to do a good deed.”

Source : Quoted in John Burke, Rogue's Progress: The Fabulous Adventures of Wilson Mizner (1975)
“I grew up with a pencil. A pencil was my computer at the time and so drawing, drawing, drawing and the tools of drawing where the usual ones and eventually then you graduated from the tools when the work increases and you start to draw by freehand as precise as possible and as accurate as possible, and I was pretty good at that.”
“It took me a lifetime.”
“Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.”
“I guess I just don't have a talent for it, some women just aren't the marrying kind - or anyway, not the permanent marrying kind, and I'm one of them.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“No temptation, no pressure, no enticing can overcome us unless we allow such. If we make the wrong choice, we have no one to blame but ourselves.”

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